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61. Curtain that was used as a towel found by a Polish Jewish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2018.208.1
Date:
found: 1944 August-1945 April
Title:
Dash family collection
… that Germany had invaded Poland. One week later, the German army occupied Łódź and immediately instigated violence and anti-Semitic policies. Jews were…
62. Wool blanket found by a Jewish Latvian concentration camp prisoner after escaping a death march
2003.174.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…. Around this time, the Soviets transported Ber’s family to Riga. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and entered Riga on July 1. In August, the…
63. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees
2012.485.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.5
Date:
received: 1933
…Fritz Silberschmidt was born on October 4, 1908, in Bocholt, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Jacob and Selma Berg Silberschmidt. Jacob was a veteran of…
64. Bath towel acquired by Polish Jewish woman after her escape during a forced march from Ravensbrück
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.32
Date:
found: 1945 April
use: 1945 May-1946
… daughter next went to live with the Sojka's, an uncle's family in Zawiercie. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Sojka's fled east to Russian…
65. Freestanding, adjustable blackboard used in a schoolroom in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.44.6 a-b
Date:
creation: 1934
use: 1934-1935
…Freestanding, adjustable blackboard used in a schoolroom in Nazi Germany…
66. Crocheted tablecloth and replacement thread saved by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.13_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.13 a-b
Date:
use: after 1938
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
67. White tea towel with yellow stripes used by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.10
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
…Ellen Ruth Thea Fass was born on October 6, 1928, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Georg Karl and Nanette Simon Fass. Ellen Ruth had a brother…
68. Blanket owned by a German Jewish woman fleeing Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.4
Date:
use: 1933 June
…Blanket owned by a German Jewish woman fleeing Germany…
69. Green wool US Army blanket owned by a Jewish refugee who survived by assuming a Catholic identity
Object | Accession Number: 2007.511.1
Date:
use: 1960-1962
manufacture: 1953
…Mark Wisniarski was born on July 23, 1934, in Lublin, Poland, to Olga Waldman, born on March 7, 1904, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), and…
70. Wool blanket with a black, red, and cream plaid pattern acquired by a Polish Jewish woman after her escape during a forced march from Ravensbrück
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.33
Date:
use: 1945 April
found: 1945 April-1946
… daughter next went to live with the Sojka's, an uncle's family in Zawiercie. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Sojka's fled east to Russian…
71. Silver engraved candelabrum commemorating the Stolp synagogue saved by Jewish refugees
2007.516.2 a-f front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.516.2 a-f
Date:
commemoration: 1895
emigration: 1939 March
…Golda Olga Nossanowski was born on January 19, 1902, in Odessa, Russia (Ukraine). She immigrated to Berlin, Germany. She was a concert pianist and…
72. White tea towel with green stripes used by a Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2014.281.11
Date:
emigration: 1939 July 25
…Ellen Ruth Thea Fass was born on October 6, 1928, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Georg Karl and Nanette Simon Fass. Ellen Ruth had a brother…
73. Wooden office desk painted white and used at the Schwerin mental hospital during its operation as a Nazi-era euthanasia killing ward
Object | Accession Number: 1999.280.1
Date:
creation: 1935
use: 1941-1945
…Schwerin (Germany)…
74. Embroidered table runner with a floral and insect design brought with German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.151.3
Date:
received: before 1938
… had invaded Poland in September 1939, a few weeks after Germany. Under the terms of the German-Soviet pact, Lvov became Soviet territory. In late June…
75. Floral pillow cover carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2005.492.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.12
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
76. Pillowcase with cutwork flowers and the embroidered initials FL used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1933
…Bertl (Bertha) Rosenfeld (Rosenfelt) was born on October 28, 1925, in Korb, Germany, the eldest child of Adolf and Katherine (Katty) Lemburger…
77. Blue and white checkered dish towel embroidered JK saved by a German Jewish prewar emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.6
Date:
emigration: 1940 August
…Jella Furth was born on January 25, 1879, in Eppingen, Germany, to Max and Elise Furth. She was the youngest of seven children, five girls and two…
78. Monogrammed bath towel used in the Krakow ghetto
2008.227.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.227.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… repaired and sold machinery which he imported from Germany. Henryka and Wilhelm had three children. Their eldest daughter, Maryla, was born in Vienna in 1914…
79. Monogrammed pillowcase with whitework embroidery used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.5
Date:
creation: approximately 1933
use: 1939 June-1947
…Bertl (Bertha) Rosenfeld (Rosenfelt) was born on October 28, 1925, in Korb, Germany, the eldest child of Adolf and Katherine (Katty) Lemburger…
80. Dish towel with red radish applique brought to the US by a young Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.194.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.194.5
Date:
emigration: 1946 July
received: 1945 June-1946 June
… family moved there. In May, Holland was occupied by Germany and restrictions on the Jewish population were instituted. They had to wear Star of David…